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I have not purchased a bunk bed but me and my brother had one growing up. Made for a lot of fun times and memories. I don't remember how young my brother was. He was 2 at least I think

We have a bunk bed, I hate changing the sheets but it is what it is. We have a tiny house and my boys share a room, we really have no other choice.

We do have a rule of no playing on the top bunk, it is for sleep only. They are 7 and 2.5, so far it's been fine in that respect. The first few weeks my toddler kept climbing up, but now it's lost its appeal and he doesn't really do it anymore. We've had the bed for almost 6 months.

Dd has a loft bed and I seriously regret it. The bed is never made, unless she does it. There’s no way I’m climbing up to do that. But the worst part is that we don’t snuggle and read before bed anymore. For awhile we read books in my bed together but don’t even do that anymore. I really loved that time snuggling before bed.

@Mrs. Carrot: congrats on the new house! The only silver lining is that the bed is so high you can’t see that it’s unmade, but dd never gets that feeling of getting into a nicely made up bed. She probably doesn’t care, but it quietly bugs me.

I got bunk beds when DS turned 2. He was placed on the bottom bunk as the crib would be for DD. He moved up to the top bunk at 4 and DD took the bottom bunk. DS has never had a problem getting down in the middle of the night to go to the restroom.

I don't have any major regrets, but DD likes to go up to the top bunk and fell off the ladder a couple of times. I have caught them playing on the upper bunk including jumping on the bed.

We have a lower bunk, but I've never really read to them on the bunk and the lighting under the bed has never been the best. We usually read in the living room.

Making the bed is annoying. The hardest part is all of the rails make it a lot harder to get it tucked in. It's also next to the wall and it's hard to tuck that side in, but the bottom is hard to tuck in against the wall as well.

We are planning to get the Ikea bunk/loft bed for our girls; it's not tall at all and I'm also considering investing in beddy's (maybe wait till Black Friday for sales) for them.

We have the ikea loft bed with the storage bin "stairs" instead of using the ladder. We have loved it. The kids love it. DD is 6 and is on top and DS is 4 and on the bottom. We got the stairs because DD is very accident prone. Changing the sheets is the only downside We do have very strict rules about playing in the top bed. I don't need the ceiling fan whacking a kid in the head!
We originally got it just for DS at age 3 and he used it like a loft bed and slept on top and was fine, also flipped it and he loved it that way too. But when baby #3 surprised us we moved the older 2 into the same room.